Re: postgres failed to start from services manager on windows 2008 r2

Thanks Ben for your quick turn around and CCing required group.

hi pgadmin-support

Could you please help me on this issue. It is happening only in customer
site and not reproducible in my environment, it is requirement that
postgres should be registered as windows service , this is the reason we
are registering it as windows service as explained below.

I am providing my previous mail content once again here:

We are able to start the postgres from command line without any issue, if
postgres is registered as windows

service and tried to start it, we are facing an issue .

Problem:

We have registered postgres(version 9.3.4) as windows service on windows
2008 R2 and registration got succeeded.

we are performing below 2 commands to register postgres as windows service

<fullpath>pg_ctl.exe register -N "prostgresService" -D
"fullpath_to_data_directory" -W

>sc description prostgresService "prostgresService Applicatio
n Server Database Service"

when we try to start the service from services manager(services.msc) it is
failing and popping up below message

"The prostgres service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some
services stop automatically if they are not

in use by other services or programs "

postgres does not even create log and its directory pg_log in pgsql\data
directory.

windows event log has a message

The description for Event ID 0 from source PostgreSQL cannot be found.
Either the component that raises this event

is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted.
You can install or repair the component

on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to
be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

Timed out waiting for server startup

could you please help us how to start, we are clueless since postgres is
not creating log except windows event log.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Ben Trewern <ben(dot)trewern(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> FYI: You would be better off posting this message to the pgsql-admin or
> pgsql-general lists as this one is specific to PgAdmin.
>
> I can’t help you much with your question as I haven’t used postgres on
> windows for some time but I’d try the following:
>
> C:\> <Path to postgres bin folder>\pg_ctl.exe start -D <Path to postgres
> data folder>
>
> This will try to start your postgres server without using windows service
> mechanism. Then see what error messages you get, this should give you some
> idea what the problem is.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
> > On 20 Sep 2016, at 09:31, PHANIKUMAR G <phanikumar(dot)gm(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > We are able to start the postgres from command line without any
> issue, if postgres is registered as windows
> >
> > service and tried to start it, we are facing an issue .
> >
> > Problem:
> >
> > We have registered postgres(version 9.3.4) as windows service on windows
> 2008 R2 and registration got succeeded.
> >
> > we are performing below 2 commands to register postgres as windows
> service
> >
> > <fullpath>pg_ctl.exe register -N "prostgresService" -D
> "fullpath_to_data_directory" -W
> >
> > >sc description prostgresService "prostgresService Applicatio
> > n Server Database Service"
> >
> > when we try to start the service from services manager(services.msc) it
> is failing and popping up below message
> >
> > "The prostgres service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some
> services stop automatically if they are not
> >
> > in use by other services or programs "
> >
> > postgres does not even create log and its directory pg_log in pgsql\data
> directory.
> >
> > windows event log has a message
> >
> > The description for Event ID 0 from source PostgreSQL cannot be found.
> Either the component that raises this event
> >
> > is not installed on your local computer or the installation is
> corrupted. You can install or repair the component
> >
> > on the local computer.
> >
> > If the event originated on another computer, the display information had
> to be saved with the event.
> >
> > The following information was included with the event:
> >
> > Timed out waiting for server startup
> >
> >
> > could you please help us how to start, we are clueless since postgres is
> not creating log except windows event log.
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance
> > Phani Kumar
>
>